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City Council President Mary Sheffield speaks during an election night watch party after winning the mayoral race on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

City Council President Mary Sheffield wins election to become Detroit’s first female mayor

November 4, 2025

City Council President Mary Sheffield will be Detroit’s newest mayor and the first woman to lead the city. Sheffield defeated popular megachurch pastor the Rev. Solomon Kinloch in Tuesday’s general election. She will take office in January and succeed three-term Mayor Mike Duggan, who is running for Michigan governor as an independent. Sheffield will inherit a city that continues to improve following Detroit’s 2014 exit from the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. Sheffield first was elected to the City Council in 2013 at age 26 and has been council president since 2022.

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From rubble to revival, Detroiters hope new Hudson’s development can help reshape the city

October 9, 2025

In 2013, mired in debt, Detroit filed for bankruptcy. The city once renowned for auto manufacturing and Motown has since refilled its coffers and restored its credit rating — and new investments are rebuilding downtown Detroit from the ground up. With a nod to a former Detroit icon, a gleaming 45-story structure called Hudson’s Detroit has risen on the site of what was once the Hudson’s department store. It offers retail space and offices, and promises high-end condos and a five-star hotel. Billionaire developer Dan Gilbert is confident it can only help bolster the city’s recovery, saying “you’re going to feel a different Detroit.”

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The Jackson Home, where Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned marches to call for Black voting rights in the early 60s in Selma, Ala., is shown being reconstructed at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Mich., Monday, July 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Michigan museum preserves Civil Rights artifacts amid federal efforts to downplay Black history

August 6, 2025

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned marches in the 1960s calling for Black voting rights has been reconstructed in its entirety at a museum near Detroit. The delicate operation to move and preserve the Jackson Home and other artifacts from the Civil Rights era preceded President Donald Trump’s efforts to eradicate what he calls “divisive” and “race-centered ideologies,” and downplay the cultural and historical impact of race, racism and Black Americans. The Smithsonian Institution and other federal museums are now facing pressure to minimize artifacts that explain American history from a Black perspective.

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Detroit mayoral candidate Mary Sheffield speaks at a campaign watch party Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Mary Sheffield to face Solomon Kinloch in November election for Detroit mayor

August 5, 2025

The race for Detroit’s next mayor is set to pit a longtime City Council member against a popular pastor. Council President Mary Sheffield and megachurch leader Solomon Kinloch were the top two vote-getters in Tuesday’s nonpartisan primary. Voters will decide in November which of the two will succeed popular three-term Mayor Mike Duggan. He is running as an independent for Michigan’s open governor’s seat in 2026. Sheffield and Kinloch bested a field of seven others. They included former police Chief James Craig, former City Council member Saunteel Jenkins and current member Fred Durhal III.

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Gen Xers mourn drowning death of actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, known as Theo on ‘The Cosby Show’

July 21, 2025

For Black youth and teens growing up in the mid-1980s, “The Cosby Show” offered something rarely seen on television up until that time. It was a sitcom that placed characters who looked like them in a positive light. And Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s “Theo Huxtable” was the one Generation X most related to. Fans took quickly to social media on Monday as news of Warner’s accidental drowning death in Costa Rica spread. Detroit author and speaker Harriet Cammock watched “The Cosby Show” in her youth and describes Warner’s death as “like losing one of us.” Authorities in Costa Rica say Warner drowned while swimming Sunday afternoon in the Caribbean.

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